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Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Economic impact of genomic selection on reducing treatments for sea lice infestation in Atlantic salmon aquaculture Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National Coordinator Panya Sae-Lim Coordinator email panya.sae-lim@mowi.com
Coordinator institution
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Institutions involved
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Start year 2022 End year 2025 Funding (€) € 450,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/332349?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=60<P.1=LTP2+Hav&source=FORISS&projectId=333257 Summary One of the biggest challenges to the Atlantic salmon industry is sea lice infestation. Sea lice infestation affects animal welfare, local environment and has negative economic consequences due to the number of treatments needed to maintain low or zero sea lice. Over the last decade, sea lice treatments have been deployed to control sea lice infestation when the average number of adult female lice per fish approaches on average 0.25 or 0.50. These controls for sea lice have direct financial and indirect other health costs (NOK 7.3 billion or NOK 5.37/kg fish produced). An alternative and more sustainable strategy to reduce sea lice infection is through genetic improvement. However, so far there has been no investigation on how much genetic improvement in lice resistance leads to reduced number of lice treatments on commercial farming setup. The overall aim of this project is to investigate the impact of genetic improvement on the number and economics of lice treatments. This project provides a bridge between state-of-the-art on-going breeding/genetic technology and farm production and sustainability by reducing the number of lice treatments and hence improving productivity, welfare and fish health in the Norwegian Atlantic salmon industry.
Keywords
Fish health;
Genetic;
Open sea aquaculture;
Fish;
Selective breeding;
Cage aquaculture;
Salmon;
Parasite;
Marine Region
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